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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction! Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.
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Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
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Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.
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Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
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Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
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What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
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I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
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A circle is the longest distance to same point.
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I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
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Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.
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Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
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Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.
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Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.
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It would have been nice to have had unicorns.
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I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
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Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!
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Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.
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It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.
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I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
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